Clues for the word "SILICON"
We've had 41 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 47 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on July 30, 2024.
Definition of silicon
- n. - A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. Atomic weight 28. Called also silicium.
Referring Clues
- Element used to make semiconductors
- Computer chip element
- Composition of some chips
- See 40-Across
- Chip ingredient
- ___ Valley
- More than a quarter of the earth's crust
- Chip material
- More than a quarter of the earth's crust, by mass
- Semiconductor element
- ___ Valley in California
- Computer chip material
- Element in chips
- Microchip material
- High-tech valley
- California's Valley
- Valley known for computer chips
- Element #14
- Element
- Semiconducting element
- Element occurring in sand
- £1 among loose coins used for chips?
- Such chips as you can get for £1 in assorted coins
- Reportedly foolish trick with chips?
- Element found in chips?
- Chip element
- Non-metallic element, symbol Si
- Integrated circuit element
- I left in second symbol on screen, a vital element in 1 across 4, 1 down, or 25, in short
- Have chips with it? It sounds a foolish trick
- Ground starved of oxygen, picture another element?
- With 38-Across, CHIP
- Google site reporting enhanced cleavage?
- Non-metallic element
- Valley element?
- Material for some chips
- Electronic material arranged in coils
- Element of some chips
- What many chips are made of
- Common element
- Such chips as you can get for £1 in assorted coins
Last Seen In
- Daily American - July 30, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 31, 2022
- Daily American - July 30, 2022
- Wall Street Journal - November 20, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - October 04, 2017
- Mirror Classic - June 28, 2017
- Guardian Quick - January 14, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 20, 2016
- Guardian Prize - September 24, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 07, 2016
- Family Time - May 11, 2015
- Universal - September 18, 2014
- Universal - August 20, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 18, 2014
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 24, 2014
- New York Times - February 12, 2014
- Guardian Quick - February 07, 2014
- Wall Street Journal - November 22, 2013
- USA Today - January 07, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - September 18, 2012
- New York Times - April 23, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - February 07, 2012
- New York Times - January 22, 2012
- New York Times - April 15, 2011
- Thinks Daily - March 30, 2011
- Guardian Quick - February 18, 2011
- Thinks Daily - February 01, 2011
- New York Times - November 24, 2010
- Washington Post - May 21, 2010
- And in 17 more crossword puzzles...